#1330 of 1330 articles from the Special Report:
Coronavirus in Canada
Vanessa Collins takes part in a protest in support of tenant rights in 2018. Photo by Franck La
Vanessa Collins hasn’t paid rent for a year now, a tactic she hopes will push her corporate landlord to provide rent relief across its portfolio of properties, which house mostly working-class and lower-income tenants struggling to survive the COVID-19 pandemic.
It’s not the first time for Collins, who saw the power of collective action back in 2017 when she was among tenants in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood fed up with chronic repair needs going unfixed and above-guideline rent increases and won concessions after withholding their rent for months.
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